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Colorado's delegates were decided, 10 seconds at a time

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Posted by gorb 2016-04-13 02:09|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 In Florida Donald Trump only got 45% of the vote but (because of Florida rules) Trump came away with 100% of the delegates.
This means that 55% of the voters in Florida did not vote for Trump but their votes ended up going to Trump anyway.
The voters don't even know who the delegates are that will be sent to represent them.
If you did not vote for Trump in Florida your vote now means nothing. You have neither a candidate nor a delegate that you selected.

I much prefer the Colorado system where the voters choose the delegates who will represent them. Even if your preferred candidate drops out (Like Rubio did during Arizona early voting) you still have your chosen delegate to represent you. So your vote is not wasted.

Contrary to what the media wants you to believe, Colorado delegates were not chosen by the GOP elite. There were 7 local elections and a State election. More than 65,000 people voted in Colorado to select their 34 preferred delegates.

Posted by junkiron 2016-04-13 09:39|| 2016-04-13 09:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the whole problem is the Colorado Republican Party did a piss-poor job of getting out and explaining things to voters. Granted Trump has had since August of last year to get on top of this, or his "Best people" to get on top of this, or even SAY something. But the GOP in Colorado should still have done a better job of explaining.

For that matter this is nothing more than Trumps way of getting out votes for NY, if he truly gave a damn he would have attended the State Convention and railed against the party insiders to their faces. He didn't, he doesn't care, he's after NY and this will be forgotten in 2-4 weeks the same way Wisconsin has been forgotten.

Posted by Charles 2016-04-13 10:24|| 2016-04-13 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the whole problem is the Colorado Republican Party did a piss-poor job of getting out and explaining things to voters.

And Trump did a piss poor job of working the process, but now he wants to do a bang-up job of lying about it afterwards.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-04-13 13:48|| 2016-04-13 13:48|| Front Page Top

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